A TORY MP widely condemned for having spoken alongside far-right politicians at a conference avoided suspension yesterday.

Daniel Kawczynski defied critics to speak at an event in Rome as part of a line-up that included Hungary’s Prime Minister Viktor Orban and Italian Lega leader Matteo Salvini.

Mr Salvini is an anti-immigration hardliner while fellow speaker Ryszard Legutko is a Polish Law and Justice MEP who has reportedly described homophobia as a “totally fictitious problem.”

The Shrewsbury and Atcham MP was condemned by the Board of Deputies of British Jews and the government’s envoy for post-Holocaust issues, former Tory MP Lord Pickles.

The Muslim Council of Britain said his presence alongside “Islamophobes and anti-semites” was “unacceptable” while Labour called for the whip to be suspended.

Labour shadow communities secretary Andrew Gwynne said: “Boris Johnson has once again broken his promise that those who do this sort of thing are ‘out first bounce,’ which is no surprise given his own racist comments, which risk emboldening the extreme far right in our country.”

A Conservative Party spokeswoman said that the MP had been reprimanded.